Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hill, has carved himself out perhaps the most independent record of any member of Congress. Items: ¶ In 1947, Massachusetts' Senior Democratic Representative John McCormack handed Kennedy a petition for presidential clemency for Boston's Mayor Curley, who was just then being packed off to jail for mail fraud. Said McCormack: "Sign it." Kennedy refused-the only Democrat in the Massachusetts delegation to do so. McCormack neither forgave nor forgot, especially after Kennedy beat him for control of the state Democratic Committee in a preconvention 1956 fight. At the national convention, it was McCormack who signaled...
...cote. In London, a mother told Probation Officer Cyril Burton that her 15-year-old son, who tells his parents when to go to bed, locks up the house at night, orders his meals served in a separate room, opens his father's mail and tells his mother not to speak to him unless spoken to, played hooky from school only because...
Harvard's Motor Sports Club out-sped its Yale opponents last Sunday in the first "Jim Khana" racing event ever held at New Haven, president Mike Chamberlain announced yesterday. Although final results are still in the mail, the Crimson definitely captured first place in both under and over the 1500 cc. classes...
...Goodby, darling," trilled Lord Beaver-brook's Daily Express. "We're going to miss you," echoed the Daily Mail. But Lord Shrewsbury, Premier Earl of England and the father of four daughters (one out last year, one coming out in the last batch of debs for this year, and two now doomed to stay "in" forever), admitted: "Candidly, it will be a financial boon." The only truly crestfallen mourners were the battalion of aristocratic British gentlewomen in reduced circumstances who for years have eked out their meager pensions by sponsoring (for fees running as high...
...heavy inroads of competition from trucks, airplanes and buses. In addition to competing with "subsidized" forms of transportation, said Symes and Perlman, their roads have suffered from "long delayed and inadequate rate increases, refusal to permit abandoning of unprofitable and unpatronized trains and facilities, inadequate payment for carrying mail, discriminatory excise taxes, excessive state and local taxes, unfair assessments for highway crossings, and other artificial burdens...